How close to the upset was that!!

What's notable with them is that they're playing well (beating or being competitive) against ATP-level teams. Makes you think that with good support, they could be quite handy indeed. I know LTA isn't into helping doubles at all, but (I'll say it again) I really do wish they'd take under their wing in some way a few of the more promising young doubles teams. It would be good for the team - and sooner or later, we will need them.

True ... though the Irish are such near neighbours that surely we can extend hospitality And it's not as if we were offering assistance to someone French or Spanish with a huge rivalry against us in DC, so that we could seem to be aiding an 'auld enemy'. But it's not just Salisbury and O'Hare. It's also other teams that are emerging or may emerge. It would need to be on the basis that people had performed decently at Challenger level or Tour level: it wouldn't just be general support. But I wonder, for example, what would have happened if Ed Corrie and Dan Smethurst had had some more assistance as a doubles team .... it's that kind of pairing that you don't want to lose.

You can see on the completed matches on the ATP app they had a match, but not sure why.

Ryan, Matthew, Andrew & Kai all play for the University of Memphis, so maybe it was the final of the college's own championship. There's nothing about it on the UofM tennis site (yet) though - the last item there gotigersgo.com/news/2017/2/17/mens-tennis-upends-indiana-4-1.aspx is about a match against Indiana towards the end of last week and suggests they had vacated their home courts while the ATP event was on.